The second issue of the Journal on Gender and Sexuality in STEM Collections and Cultures brings together the contributions to the workshop Diverse Infrastructures? Gender, Queer & the Foundations of Society (6 to 8 September 2023) at Technisches Museum Wien. The synthesis of interdisciplinary perspectives from museums, research and art reveals the complexity and social relevance of infrastructures as well as the challenges and opportunities for museums.

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Sophie Gerber is a historian of technology and has been working at Technisches Museum Wien since 2019, where she is in charge of the domestic technology and food collections, their expansion and documentation. She also works on strategies for diversity-oriented, gender-informed collecting, exhibiting, educating, and research in science and technology museums. 2014 PhD in the project "Objects of Energy Consumption" of Deutsches Museum and TU Munich. Her research interests include gender and queer studies, material culture, and intersections between the history of technology, consumption, and everyday life.

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Sophie Gerber, “Within the realm of possibilities. Reflections on the workshop Diverse Infrastructures? Gender, Queer & the Foundations of Society“, insightOut. Journal on Gender and Sexuality in STEM Collections and Cultures, 2 (2024), S. 12-17, DOI: 10.60531/insightout.2024.2.4